Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from South Sudan and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing The Royal Family And The Poor to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All Sex Pistols tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Order record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cramps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Technova,
Smog,
Japan,
Jesper Dahlback,
Funky Four + One,
Babytalk,
The Cowsills,
The Slits,
Jeff Lynne,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bill Near,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Newcleus,
Radiopuhelimet,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Susan Cadogan,
Kool Moe Dee,
Delta 5,
Grandmaster Flash,
Oneida,
Sällskapet,
The Smiths,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Barrington Levy,
Young Marble Giants,
Big Daddy Kane,
Minutemen,
Easy Going,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Visage,
A Certain Ratio,
The Happenings,
Pantaleimon,
Alice Coltrane,
Eden Ahbez,
The J.B.'s,
Panda Bear,
Scan 7,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Silicon Teens,
Pantytec,
Alphaville,
Alison Limerick,
Fifty Foot Hose,
T. Rex,
Interpol,
AZ,
The Offenders,
Inner City,
Robert Hood,
The Motions,
Patti Smith,
Barclay James Harvest,
Slave,
Sonic Youth,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Mr. Review,
Toni Rubio,
Rotary Connection,
Can,
The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.